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Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc

Bios's mission is to seek and share fundamental knowledge of the oceans through state-of-the-art scientific research, world-class field expeditions, and comprehensive educational experiences.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$592k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$12MAnimals$46k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $1,722,430, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,097,384 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $374,954 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $485k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$223,771
Median grant
6
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INST$592,150
THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA$343,491
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$275,868
MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY$223,771
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$153,536
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND$107,472
BENEATH THE WAVES$26,142
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INST: $592k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - BOSTON: $118k → 16%CARNEGIE MELLON: $100k → 11%CORAL REEF RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $48k → 11%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $202k → 14%THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $289k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $289k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $159k → 15%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $297k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $233k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $128k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $61k → 9%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INST: $422k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - BOSTON: $103k → 16%THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $343k → 11%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $191k → 14%THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $208k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $164k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $154k → 15%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $276k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $93k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $107k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $48k → 9%MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $348k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - BOSTON: $92k → 16%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $336k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $109k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $153k → 15%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $223k → 18%THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $78k → 7%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE: $318k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $328k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $114k → 15%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $215k → 18%THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $71k → 7%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE: $301k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $327k → 11%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $212k → 18%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INST: $284k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $261k → 11%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $188k → 18%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE: $271k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $204k → 11%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $166k → 18%MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $269k → 8%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $132k → 18%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE: $211k → 8%WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE: $156k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
HI
MS
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $375k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$288k · 77% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: TO FACILITATE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Cayman Islands$87k · 23% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TO FACILITATE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 18 repeat orgs$304k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
5

Total granted

$12M
$304k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+26%

Still filing today

44%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MB
    MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +37%
  • WH
    WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +68%
  • UO
    University of Miami
    4× · 2021–2024 · $579k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
    one grant, 2023 · $128k
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +26%
  • FS
    FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $34k · revenue +21%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
2
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
University of Miami
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5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
8
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
9
The Rockefeller University

The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Florida International University Research Foundation Inc

The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…

Science & Tech
12
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida State University Research Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Beneath the Waves Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $2,295,584 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARAOREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,709,349 · OtherOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEM: $562,443 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII SYSTEMTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $403,198 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $343,299 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $313,038 · Other+8 more: $554,384 · Other+8 moreMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $2,574,584 · Science & TechMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORYWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $2,555,427 · Science & TechWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONUniversity of Miami: $578,523 · EducationUniversit…UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $340,251 · EducationUNIVERSIT…EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $59,302 · EducationEMBRY-RID…+2 more: $66,149 · Education+2 moreCORAL REEF RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $92,348 · Community ImprovementBENEATH THE WAVES INC: $46,216 · Animals
Other$6,181,295Science & Tech$5,130,011Education$1,044,225Community Improvement$92,348Animals$46,216

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $2,574,584 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $2,555,427 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $578,523 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $403,198 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $340,251 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $99,607 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORAL REEF RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $92,348 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $59,302 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENEATH THE WAVES INC: $46,216 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $34,087 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $32,062 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds CORAL REEF RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds BENEATH THE WAVES INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

American Chemical Soc…
American Chemical SocietyDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences Bios Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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